I am new to Marklin trains, having just purchased a Märklin Digital H0 Branch Line Starter Set with Mobile Station
(Product #29245) and the Marklin Digital Steam Powered Rotary Snow Plow Train Set (Product #26833). The locomotive that came with the starter set runs perfectly when using the Mobile Station 2, but the Mobile Station 2 will not recognize either the snow plow or the locomotive that came with the snow plow (both are MFX). When I put either the snow plow or the locomotive that came with the snow plow on the track and then plug in the Mobile Station 2, MFX blinks twice on the Mobile Station 2, but neither the snow plow or the locomotive is recognized. I've reset the mobile station 2, but this did not help the problem. Any suggestions?

In some rare cases MFX-Locomotives can have problems with being recognized by the MS2.

Try to get the MFX-locomotive to register on a another MS2 if this is possible for you.

If it get recognized by the other MS2, then try to set it back to your own MS2 and try again.

NOTE :
Many of the MS2 units delivered i Starts-set is not up to date regarding the internal Software in the MS2.
The last Software-version for the MS2 is V1.81 and you could try to get your MS2 updated by connecting it with a Marklin CS2 unit (60213/60214/60215)
which have been updated with minimum V 2.0.1 or higher.
The V 2.0.1 Software contains an Update for the MS2, which is transfered to the MS2 when you connect it to an updated CS2.
The minor update for the CS2, which was released in August also contains a new Update for the MS2, where the internal LOK-DB file in MS2 get updated
to the following version : 011 - (03/2012).



Have you tried to set up the Locomotive manually on the MS2

All MFX-Locomotives also have a Digital Adress, in the case of 26833, this adress is "55".

You could then try to find out if works this way around.

You might have to set up all the functions manually to on the MS2 in this case.

Charles,

Thanks for the warm welcome and the advice. I connected the MS2 to just one piece of track, but was still unable to get the MS2 to recognize the MFX units. I'll keep this thread posted on any success I may have in solving this problem.

Thanks,

NRB

Tom,

Thank you for the advice. The "Find Loco" feature did not work. It would look for an MFX and would say it was unable to find the loco.

I was able to manually register the units by switching the MS2 to only DCC/MM2 protocols. I registered the units using MM2, but I'm only able to use functions F1 through F4. The 55 unit has more sound functions that I'm currently unable to use. Can you only access F1 - F4 with MM2. Can an MFX loco be controlled by DCC?

Thanks,

Nathan

Tom,

Thank you for the suggestions and information. I don't know how to register the second address with my MS2. Could you give me a few hints on how to do this or point me towards the information if it's online somewhere?

Thank you,

NRB

Thanks! If this works, does it mean I'll need to switch between 2 locomotives on the MS2 to control the sounds from the 1 locomotive?

All,

I'm happy to report that I was able to get my 55 loco and the snow plow to register using MFX and the MS2. After a lot of trial and error (and research and help from Tom), I was able to get my units going under the MM2 protocol. After learning about the CV values and setting them, I decided to try to set CV 50 to a value of 15 which I believe tells the decoder unit to operate under all protocols (I'm not sure if this is correct or not). After this I enabled the MFX protocol on on the MS2 and set the 55 loco on the track. The 55 loco then registered under MFX and operated great with all its functions.

I removed the 55 from the track, and then tried this procedure with the snow plow, but it did not work. I then cleared all my locomotives from my MS2 and then put the snow plow and the 55 on the track together. This time the MS2 recognized the 55 first and then recognized the snow plow. I'm not sure why, but this worked.

Thanks,

NRB